From the time I was a teenager, I have spent my entire life working in a Queens-based, two-generation family business that grew into a market leader in the retail electronic amusement, music, tobacco, and ATM industry. In large measure, New York State’s policies are to blame for how this cottage industry, along with many small businesses like mine, is drying up and disappearing.
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